the u.n. security council voted to send three hundred observers to see reality russia was the nation's not to undermine the mission after the u.s. says only pressure on their side regime will work. also this hour campaigning and since france ahead of sunday's presidential paul would voters facing a tough choice at a time of social division and record unemployment. and energy hungry china works to secure a slice of the arctic that is on top of mineral resources where the chinese premier on a tour of the nordic state. he's for russia and around the world this isn't seen with me you know thanks for joining us for the security council has unanimously voted on

a resolution to send hundreds of observers to syria says it will help promote the un backed ceasefire agreement with multiple reports of the truce being violated by both sides are she's marina britain has more from new york. once again the united nations security council has unanimously adopted a resolution on syria the most recent one drafted by russia and co-sponsored by eight other countries the resolution calls for and authorizes up to three hundred unarmed u.n. military observers to go to syria and monitor the truce the cease fire that was put in place april twelfth between damascus and the opposition groups this resolution also calls on the syrian government to meet its responsibilities and pledges of calls or even six point peace plan laid out by un joint envoy mr kofi annan on russia of course believes that this most recent development in syria is

a step in the right direction but it is a good resolution isn't fundamentally he sits and wins in syria and enjoys a consensus reality if you non-sensical in peace the main goal should be to comply with the resolution any deviation in terms of the interpretation of the mandate is only the libyan model should remain in the post in the meantime u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice left the meeting on saturday not showing as much optimism as russia and many other countries how had susan rice took to her twitter feed to say the deployment of three hundred or three thousand unarmed observers cannot on its own stop assad's quote murderous rampage susan rice said that external pressures are additionally needed to solve the

problem in syria the us ambassador also said that washington and its allies are preparing for action that will be required if assad persists to quote slaughter clearly this is. it is undermining in many ways the effort that is in the me from inside the security council to support the six point peace plan that was laid out by mr kofi annan on vaster churkin said that these efforts that are trying to put pressure on an already stressful situation does not help bring peace and security to syria drabble some to me in the statement which was made by ambassador rice on by some colleagues from the west european countries even though they supported this russian draft on the option of this resolution is that they missed an opportunity to send a signal to the opposition they kept criticizing the government saying nothing about what they expect the for all now the opposition which is in fact. very

clearly in the security council resolution which they themselves had just voted for and all those provisions of a blue on blue threats of that is which are being patched the cell where those things are not i'm not productive i think they are distracting from much from the implementation of the kofi annan throughout and from the political efforts of the security council and they may give a ground for some extremists to believe that their cause is a still has some prospect for for taking over the political process which we are trying to assist obviously in syria so you know we're not naive even though the security council voted unanimously today we know that the some members of the security council some of board members of the international community. still considered to think in going from patient to term stores a syrian government and that's richardson says the syrian government will be

primarily responsible for the safety and security of the u.n. unarmed observers that will be deployed from syria they will be deployed once the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon feels that it's safe enough for the. observers to go and there has been enough to say sion of violence this resolution the most recent one adopted also underscores that the syrian government and the opposition group both have to put their weapons out what in stout and begin in dialogue. and political analysts from the u.k. told us that peace efforts in syria are being undermined by western players who keep mounting pressure on the assad regime. look at what the original strategy was the original plan was to basically roll out the same strategy as was employed in libya and the syrian people do that in the fermented a civil war they were successful in their using their proxy forces using libyan

militants that shipped in across the turkish border using people trained in lebanon and turkey and successfully managed to ferment some find an insurgency syrian situation there's a battle within western strategic kind of planners at the moment about how which way they're going to play that station became very difficult for anyone to have any faith that these proxy forces alone could actually had any hope of taking power and therefore the kind of idea of regime change most realistic budget is now seen as is not really feasible if in less outside intervention comes into play so there's still keen to promote this idea that they may conduct some kind of aerial bombardment some kind of mass slaughter to help their proxies on the ground in order to keep the civil war going. let's move on now a media blackout in france as presidential race is giving the candidates just a little breathing space and the tight contest which threatens to currently has an equal hour sacristy if not all the ten candidates wins more than fifty percent of

the electorate will vote again i would later choose between the top two expected to include socialist leader and frontrunner out front so our land as our senior reports economic gloom and all time high unemployment are dominating grotesqueness sound. one day to go before the french at the polls but one in four voters still hard at me about the part of the french people jobs money in their pockets especially at a time when unemployment is around ten percent at an all time high that's about three million people unemployed so who could take the top class and solve the crash people's problems well according to the latest poll social is probably a candidate or large is due to believe that about twenty nine percent are potential votes that were not. top commanders of the country but he is criticized for this widely perceived lack of experience truly is incumbent. is a deeply unpopular president and one recent poll you would declare with him the most unpopular president in history of his presidency has been marred with one

economic crisis after another in the last weeks of campaigning he's third to more radical rhetoric of just clamping down on immigration. or talking tough when it comes to security matters especially after the two incidents he's also taken on a more confrontational tone to yours the european union proposing that france freeze its budget contribution to the e.u. budget currently according to the polls is head of the national front party she has been sticking to it and to immigration platform vowing to cut down the number of legal immigrants to ten thousand a year that's down from about one hundred eighty thousand at the moment and she has also said that she wants france to the euro and go back to the french the french frank and what's being called the big surprise abyss french presidential campaign is. the left right now his numbers have doubled since january from about six to seven percent to fourteen percent now he is mincing no words since talking about

a civic insurrection a revolution also has the financial sector and he also was xargs the fiscal pact that had been signed he wants to withdraw from it so he's taking on a very strong hardline approach these are the top four contenders for the top job in france now based on the referee they've been using in their campaign france's european neighbors as well as other partners understand that no matter who takes on the presidency there will be disruptions where the form of continue would be expected it's just a matter of to what extent these changes will impact the relationship as far as french people are concerned they have a few more hours left to make that choice. french sarkozy's fighting for his political life as front. this presidential election begins in a few hours time with a ping and pull saying he could be toppled by his socialist rival from saw on land and defeat for sarkozy has been a close ally to washington will massively change france's foreign policy says michel chossudovsky from the research center on global isolation in montreal the

succors is called saku or maybe he is the american that he is support of the say actually of american interests rather than the interests of ready to cooperate he very much the us foreign policy of its us foreign policy i suspect that if if some course the goal was let's say e.g. pulse was a low becomes president of the republic really don't mean monorail ship in. foreign policy but i should also mention the other. aspects of this question which is the role of wall street all the europe here because all the landscape cause he was to all of that instead of washington so perhaps your president

a socialist president will give us a little bit more of its republican you know traditions of the pendant boys of the world scale as well as with european union. and the currency crisis tough cuts. tragically to gratian failures. who will be left standing with the people speech. the french election on party. the bahrain professor has been found shot dead outside other night clashes with security forces it's reported some up at a restaurant is there also beaten by right he's the head of a controversial bahrain formula one kong preying on friday tens of thousands to pass an anti regime protest to coincide with the race. as a journalist stunned that so we're trying to for a century why explains why he brings that has been a condemnation from western countries all reign as one of the petrel monarchies

in the middle east and behind a change change of leadership recently as you can see hasn't changed we've seen reports of violence coming out of bahrain one after the one after another for the last year or two years the it's not uncommon to the police will have a drive by shootings of people in bahrain you can watch these videos on you tube if you want it's one of the worst police states a region to reform i don't think so if we were going to see reform in bahrain it would have come after the recent change of leadership bahrain is under the umbrella of the western nations in terms of influence in the region bahrain is a satellite state of the kingdom of saudi arabia and also in turn is a satellite state in the region of washington and london we have incredible vested interest there in terms of petroleum contracts etc and also it's true to its history teacher defense position as well. you're watching r c and still to come

later in the program a chance to live to suffer as any see it with the pope and if you look. western life saving medicines to be made locally and cheaper also helping thousands who otherwise couldn't afford treatment plus will be going to extremes. rivers and russia's far more provide true things that are vital for the people who live here. and fish come and see how life here revolves around just a few minutes on oxy. up to two thousand people have joined an antenatal riling central russia to protest against the plans transit hub for the alliance in the city of the protesters chanted including no to nato on russian soil so some of the alliances transit routes to afghanistan go through russia and a new deal would see nature using all yana airport to move nonmilitary cargo the

opposition claims that would threaten russia secures despite the government's assurances that no nato personnel would be stations that under one prominent opposition activists the left front movement sergei wouldn't solve is now under investigation after claims here at tanks and female journalists during the battle. the vast energy resources of the arctic have so far been sought for by the countries bordering the region but now china the world's biggest energy consumer is joining the country's premier it's touring europe first stopping in iceland where he signed a cauldron energy cooperation beijing also wants permanent observer status on the arctic council and some experts believe china has a real chance of securing a south. chinese are rising rising very quickly and politically and economically or some of the western countries actually true their cultures there still was trying to survive actually hesitant to give china this time of status in the uk because of my being first in china will use always diplomatic skills to try to gain more

support from from the not it countries which are more friendly towards china in this region another uses and china were also us is economic earlier each game as a part currency the west as you know prices specially for example i sir and i think china will use more of its oil wells to gain their support in the region. at least fifty people have been arrested on saturday in montreal canada after a second day of anti-government protests the demonstrators are postulated billion dollar plan to extract natural resources in the region that's been severely criticized by environmental it more protests in montreal came after hundreds of students took to the streets on friday protesting against seventy five percent to sion heights at least six people were injured as officers using tear gas pushed hundreds of young people away from the parliament building students have been demonstrating and boycotting classes in montreal for more than two months the

government refusing to back down. and right now let's take a look at some other world news making headlines this hour at least sixty people have been injured in their head on grayle crash in amsterdam on saturday evening and high speed express approaching the city collided with a local train heading in the opposite direction after twenty of the injured remain in a serious condition road traffic to be at the country's capital and its main international airport has been severely disrupted. they are going to be sour the interim president nominated after a military coup earlier this month has resigned and he expressed concerns over the legality of his nomination earlier in april are the other officers captured the prime minister along with the president and the stablish the national transitional council with its own leader the un security council threatened to impose sanctions on the drunk if civilian rule was untrue stories. the accounts of pat's

horrible can old just outside the capital of mexico has been erupted with clouds of ash and spewing super heated rocks as high as a one kilometer volcano alert in the area has risen to five of these seven point scale as local authorities warned people to take the situation seriously when they are ready to begin evacuating the region that will canada's last major eruption was in december of two thousand causing thousands of local residents to flee the area. any indian more than a million people are diagnosed with cancer every year and although some of the conditions are manageable the drugs needed to treat them have to be important and have to be imported archer's say and they don't come cheap but in our new louis changed the situation for magically arteries pressure in the hands of our. she learned the he is one of the two point five million people in india dying from cancer while she spent three thousand dollars of her money and traveled for three

hundred fifty miles from her home to get proper treatment she believes there is no hope for her address back at the magazines and the stores are expensive have come from so far some times we don't have money to burn it. but now there might be a chance in a revolutionary move india's patent office has decided that they're a german pharmaceutical powerhouse would lose its exclusive rights to manufacture a life saving cancer pale the right use was absorbed into the heart. you can manufacture some of that order i'm sitting here and it goes under forty one. years from now a compulsory license would be given to a local indian pharmaceutical manufacturer that could make the exact same drug buy cheaper all of us are done by those who are a number who hoard medicine and would have no good most of those medicines.

for the price it's all possible because of a revised trade and international property rights agreement passed by the world trade organization known as trips to trips agreement spoke it's to provide medication to all people in developing countries that means that global pharmaceutical companies are required to sell a life altering medication at a reasonably of one of the people in those countries if they jones to that patent offices in those countries can ask these global pharmaceutical companies to provide compulsory licenses so that a local manufacturer can benefit make those drops the idea is that the global pharmaceutical companies would then be stripped of their monopoly on drugs in developing countries. fear has died in statements that it is quote disappointed in the rule in and is looking for ways to challenge it this is solvable of what do you

look at and all of us who give their. opinions. a chance to live in and to chance for india to stand up against domination from the west preassure either r t new delhi india. a motor rally has been held in moscow in support of russia's orthodox church about seven hundred drivers and bikers tied to balloons or vines to their vehicles to take part in the procession participants say the event days to support the orthodox church which has come under public criticism with several protests including a punk rock group taking over the public schools main cathedral several prayer services in support of the faith and many of its holiest sites are planned on sunday. but they will love it or not genetically modified food is everywhere and has become part of everyday life she is resident in the big apple asked people on

the streets whether they think korean food is a good play. are you concerned about genetically modified or enhanced foods or is it just an overblown issue this week let's talk about that do you care he's eat them obviously not i'm well i think it's less processed foods in europe that's for sure yeah i do think a lot of it is corporate driven here and it is related to money unfortunately modifying genetically food is totally naked and controlling they want to take over the super food sources over mankind so they can basically push up on us so why are americans ok with that i think is the knowledge they want to keep information from regular t.v. . that are just being entertained did you know that color with is made with high for just corn syrup in the united states but everywhere else it's made with pure cane sugar i didn't know that but it just surprised me. so what is that why don't

americans demands better things in their food. they don't want to pay more money for their food needs they get used to what they're eating but i don't care as long as they're comfortable it doesn't matter that would be my guess i think our country is run by greed and money and there's a lot of issues here so. that they when the greed is so strong that it messes with what people eat. i think i think you just answer the question with your question do you think that because the population is growing and growing and growing bet we're bound to eat things like bait in petri dishes and those kinds of extremes probably yes there's this website i don't remember the name of it but supposedly. in a week. and told you how many earths we would need for every one of the world the same amount. and it turns out. there really need to be such earths.

and decent size to say the least but you know years for is that if americans stopped by genic we modified food rather you think that they've stopped making it all that's one hundred percent yes the point of my i'm going to demand dries up the supply dries up to need to start putting that on labels that everything that's been there right absolutely and more people are getting wise to labels now i think when they're in the supermarkets and the shopping they'll see the signs you know they start to read more than take it off the shelf and put in a basket i think just slowly get no idea through media but i think in these to go further whether or not you're concerned about genetically modified foods the bottom line is if you live in the united states you're probably eating a lot more of them than you realise. all right get to know north russia close up on our latest adventure taught to a far flung part of the nation.

and today we're exploring russia's extreme north the modern it's region is bigger than france and half of its territory lies beyond the arctic circle between the last eight months a year which means only a few speeches can survive in the harsh conditions reindeer and fish mean everything for the indigenous people populating these are welcoming lands a strong bass and discover it. an icon of the north than yet some other native northern peoples follow grazing reindeer wherever they go their routines revolving around the animals the life of the reindeer herder is usually hard in isolated but occasionally they gather to share their world and compete in the skills they honed in on the tundra and i'm about to join the celebrations.

last seen throwing. stick wrestling. and hurdle jumping all cause for competition but the main event is rapidly approaching. the races bringing teams from foreign oil and the competition is tough i feel a bit nervous my rivals get better every year even though i won last year this year the younger ones may compete on a par with me. and perhaps he's right to be a bit jittery but it seems getting started is the trickiest moment. sometimes for a cameraman to. look at your feet. after the festivities to sit down to eat some reindeer of course but also that other russian arctic speciality fish in this nearby fact trader preparing thousands of

none of these a seething issue all having been caught to quote from local rivers and i'm told demand is booming and supply to the here isn't enough of our product even to cover the domestic market europeans find our products delicious anika logical if you were but so far with simply haven't enough of them to see where all this comes from we caught up with andre he's been fishing since he was a child on the hope today the river shark pike like his catch andrew. he's a true russian northerner and we. can't say for fishing in the south it may have his advantages as for me i love to fish right here in the north well it's frosting here it's fresh and the sun is bright it's great it's ten point later and rays off to prepare his dinner and we have a small insight into the central importance of these animals to the minds of all the others without the fish and without the deer tundra on the minds of those who

live here would be very empty indeed tom bottom. and a great extent mark the stakes expose more dark secrets of the global financial industry that's because a report that's out of the headlines or that. one

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